Astronomy:Phi Fornacis

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Short description: Star in the constellation Fornax
Phi Fornacis
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Fornax
Right ascension  02h 28m 01.70348s[1]
Declination −33° 48′ 39.7382″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.13[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type A2.5V[3]
B−V color index +0.089±0.003[2]
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)+19.0±4.2[4] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +18.526[1] mas/yr
Dec.: +5.163[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)21.1604 ± 0.1410[1] mas
Distance154 ± 1 ly
(47.3 ± 0.3 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)1.79[2]
Details
Mass2.11[5] M
Radius1.74[6] R
Luminosity16.66[2] L
Surface gravity (log g)4.27[5] cgs
Temperature9,449±321[5] K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)116.8±0.8[7] km/s
Age238[5] Myr
Other designations
φ For, CD−34°905, FK5 2168, GC 2967, HD 15427, HIP 11477, HR 724, SAO 193723[8]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Phi Fornacis is a single[9] star in the southern constellation of Fornax. It has a white hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.13.[2] The distance to this object is approximately 154 light-years based on parallax,[1] and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +19 km/s.[4]

This is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A2.5V.[3] Phi Fornacis is 238[5] million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 117 km/s.[7] It has 2.1[5] times the mass of the Sun and 1.7[6] times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 17[2] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,449 km/s.[5] It displays an infrared excess, suggesting a circumstellar disk[10] of dust is orbiting the star at a distance of 30.2 astronomical unit|AU with a mean temperature of 100 K.[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (2012), "XHIP: An extended hipparcos compilation", Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331, doi:10.1134/S1063773712050015, Bibcode2012AstL...38..331A. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Abt, Helmut A.; Morrell, Nidia I. (July 1995), "The relation between Rotational Velocities and Spectral Peculiarities among A-type stars", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 99: 135–172, doi:10.1086/192182, Bibcode1995ApJS...99..135A 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gontcharov, G. A. (November 2006), "Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system", Astronomy Letters 32 (11): 759–771, doi:10.1134/S1063773706110065, Bibcode2006AstL...32..759G. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 David, Trevor J.; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. (2015), "The Ages of Early-Type Stars: Strömgren Photometric Methods Calibrated, Validated, Tested, and Applied to Hosts and Prospective Hosts of Directly Imaged Exoplanets", The Astrophysical Journal 804 (2): 146, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/146, Bibcode2015ApJ...804..146D. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Cotten, Tara H.; Song, Inseok (July 2016), "A Comprehensive Census of Nearby Infrared Excess Stars", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 225 (1): 24, doi:10.3847/0067-0049/225/1/15, 15, Bibcode2016ApJS..225...15C. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Díaz, C. G. et al. (July 2011), "Accurate stellar rotational velocities using the Fourier transform of the cross correlation maximum", Astronomy & Astrophysics 531: A143, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201016386, Bibcode2011A&A...531A.143D. 
  8. "* phi For". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=%2A+phi+For. 
  9. Eggleton, P. P.; Tokovinin, A. A. (September 2008), "A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 389 (2): 869–879, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13596.x, Bibcode2008MNRAS.389..869E. 
  10. Chen, Christine H. et al. (2014), "The Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Debris Disk Catalog. I. Continuum Analysis of Unresolved Targets", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement 211 (2): 22, doi:10.1088/0067-0049/211/2/25, 25, Bibcode2014ApJS..211...25C.